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Monday, 20 October 2014

MYANMAR: Students to hold emergency meeting over education law

Mizzima17 October 2014Issue No:339

Myanmar students are planning an
emergency meeting to deal with concerns over the draft higher education
law. Here students protest at Dagon University on September 2 against
the proposed law. Photo: Nyain Thit Nyi/Mizzima

(MANDALAY) – The All Burma Federation of
Student Unions (ABFSU) is planning to hold an all-Myanmar students’
emergency meeting in November, said ABFSU central working committee and
research committee official Aung Hmine San.

“The ABFSU, in cooperation with other organizations, needs to oppose
the national education law,” Aung Hmine San said. “We think other
students organizations also need to collectively oppose it. That’s why
we plan to organize the students emergency meeting so that ABFSU, the
University Students Union and other students organizations will be able
to work together to make plans.”

Students and civic groups say the proposed law allows centralized
control of universities and curtails efforts to bring about autonomy of
the country’s institutions of higher learning.

An organizing
committee was set up on October 4 to arrange the students’ emergency
meeting. The committee comprises of 10 members of the ABFSU and 10
members of the University Students Union.

Students and education experts will discuss the national education
law on the first day of the two-day meeting. On the second day, the
students propose making plans as to how to proceed.

The time, date and venue for the students’ emergency meeting have not yet been announced.